Ain’t No Pun Low Enough

When Barack Obama became a Presidential frontrunner, we all prayed it wouldn’t happen. Then it happened on “Saturday Night Live,” and we prayed it would end there. We’re talking, of course, about the decision to retool Ashford & Simpson’s hit “Solid as a Rock” as “Solid as Barack,” with Obama-specific lyrics. We prayed it would end there because, well, it’s silly. But now Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson themselves have vetted the parody—which they say began (or at least happened simultaneously) at concerts of theirs—and turned it into homage: they will release a new “Solid as Barack” single on January 20th.

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